Hermann Traube was a German mineralogist born in Ratibor

Ratibor

Ratibor is a Slavic origin male name containing words: "raci/rati" - "war, fight" and "bor" - "fight, warrior" and may refer to:*The German name of Racibórz, Poland*Ratibor...

, Silesia

Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

 (presently Racibórz, Poland). He was the son of chemist

Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

 Moritz Traube

Moritz Traube

Moritz Traube was a German chemist and universal private scholar....

 (1826-1894).

He studied at the Universities of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...

, Heidelberg, Breslau and Greifswald, earning his doctorate in 1884. At Breslau his instructors were Ferdinand Cohn

Ferdinand Cohn

Ferdinand Julius Cohn was a German biologist.Cohn was born in Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia. At the age of 10 he suffered hearing impairment. He received a degree in botany in 1847 at the age of nineteen at the University of Berlin. He was a teacher and researcher at University of...

 (1828-1898) and Theodor Poleck

Theodor Poleck

Thomas August Theodor Poleck was a German chemist and pharmacist born in Neisse.He studied at Giessen in the laboratory of Justus von Liebig, and in 1849 earned his doctorate at the University of Halle. Afterwards he worked in his father's pharmacy and for several years taught classes at a...

 (1821-1906).

In 1905 he became an associate professor at the University of Berlin, and later a professor in Greifswald

Greifswald

Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

. He was the author of a book on Silesian minerals called Die Minerale Schlesiens (1888).